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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them; they show us the state of our decay. (Brian W. Aldiss)
Most children instinctively draw objects from the viewpoint that gives the most information. They draw a house from the front, but a truck from the side. (Anonymous)
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. (W. H. Auden)
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. (Bruce Barton)
In childhood, time is kind. A moment is swallowed whole, by senses open and able. (Nicoletta Baumeister)
I am married to a very dear girl who is an artist. We have no children except me. (Brendan Francis Behan)
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else... For a young child everything that happens is a necessity. (John Berger)
I wish to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary. (Victor Borge)
When elementary schools include art programs in the curriculum, children do better with math. (Kelly Borsheim)
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. (Rachel Carson)
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.' (Lillian Carter)
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. (Lillian Carter)
We must all work to make this world worthy of its children. (Pablo Casals)
What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? (Pablo Casals)
We should say to each of them [our children]: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? (Pablo Casals)
Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them. (Francois Rene de Chateaubriand)
Painting like a child does not mean painting with child-like strokes and random scribbles of paints. But rather it's painting fearless... approaching painting with a new light and courage... learning endlessly without ceasing... painting boldly. (Elisa Choi)
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. (Agatha Christie)
-Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother...
Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. (Amy Chua)
-b.1865 d.1946...
What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation. (Franz Cizek)
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past... (Arthur C. Clarke)
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. (Paulo Coelho)
I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst. (Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot)
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Darrow)
Children become what they are told they are. (Dorothy DeLay)
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. (Phyllis Diller)
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. (Phyllis Diller)
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. (Ernest Dimnet)
-Children of the World lyrics
Children believe in friends, / Children believe in having friends / Children believe in friends. (Donovan)
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying. (Betty Edwards)
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. (Elliot W. Eisner)
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job. (Elliot W. Eisner)
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. (Elliot W. Eisner)
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. (Elliot W. Eisner)
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth. (George Eliot)
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. (George Eliot)
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Years of educational treatment have convinced us that learning is, and can only be, the result of teaching. We grow up into adults who insist that our children 'receive' an education. We trust neither ourselves nor our children. (Aaron Falbel)
You know what, Sally, Suzie, Timmy, Tom, you are wonderful; the world is your oyster. But you will not always be the best at everything. Chances are excellent that in your lifetime, you will encounter people who are smarter, wittier, more industrious and yes, more graceful, athletic, thinner, maybe even prettier, and sooner or later, younger, than you are. That, dear child, is called life. (Bridget Foley)
When we women give ourselves permission to pursue our passion, we give our children permission to do the same. This is especially true for our daughters. (Gwen Fox)
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. (Robert Fulghum)
If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as 'Red cars can jump all others,' then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity. (Bill Gates)
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life. (John Taylor Gatto)
Your children are not your children, they are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but are not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. (Kahlil Gibran)
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. (Malcolm Gladwell)
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. (Mark Haddon)
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. (Mark Haddon)
One with artistic talent must be encouraged as a child - to be and to do that for which he was born. For a child to abandon that talent is to abandon his very self. (Hap Hagood)
We must show trust and confidence in ourselves and the abilities of our children, and highlight what we really value in them as human beings and as equal contributors to our society. We have to condemn the concept of hurrying, of pushing to grow up, and instead respect the dignity of individual growth (Suzannah Harris)
The scribblings of any... child clearly indicates how thoroughly immersed he is in the sensation of moving his hand and crayon aimlessly over a surface, depositing a line in his path. There must be some quality of magic in this alone. (Edward Hill)
Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love. (Gary Holland)
The child is bold. He is not afraid of making mistakes. And he is patient. He can tolerate an extraordinary amount of uncertainty, confusion, ignorance, and suspense... (John Holt)
The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he can see other people doing. He is open, perceptive, and experimental. (John Holt)
Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly. (William Morris Hunt)
Take children seriously... they can teach you so much. (Melissa Jean)
Nothing has a stronger influence on their children than the unlived lives of their parents. (Carl Gustav Jung)
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. (Carl Gustav Jung)
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in their having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. (Paul Klee)
Admittedly, the acquisition of knowledge is not easy and some children are apt to resist it. (George Kneller)
As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities. (Maria Konnikova)
I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful. (Jeff Koons)
In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love... (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
The creative adult is the child who has survived. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected. (Charles de Lint)
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't. (Charles de Lint)
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions. (Charles de Lint)
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. (James Russell Lowell)
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. (John Lubbock)
One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often. (Eric Maisel)
The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences. (Loris Malaguzzi)
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. (Abraham Maslow)
Children of any age flourish with options. Art should be mandatory at all ages. (Donna Jo Massie)
Children feel successful when they are able to complete a task... External motivators such as prizes, i.e., toys, pencils, food treats, etc., placate rather than instill the value and sense of doing a job well done. The focus shifts to getting the prize. (Terri Mauro)
Watch what you say and do because little eyes are watching you. (Reba McEntire)
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. (Mignon McLaughlin)
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up. (Robert Moss)
I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly (I think) she hurt herself more than the painting. (James Nares)
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. (Ogden Nash)
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? (Jane Nelson)
We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness.' In other words, are we useful, are we making other people's lives a little bit better? (Barack Obama)
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. (George Orwell)
My advice is: go find a child, a fearless child, and let them do the talking. Then pick up your tools and go flying. What Dreams May Come? (Mary Ann Pals)
When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view. (Martin Parr)
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. (Louis Pasteur)
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. (Joseph Chilton Pearce)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso)
The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious. (Vince Poscente)
The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun. (Jean Paul Richter)
I've learned... that having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world. (Andy Rooney)
I've learned... that you should never say no to a gift from a child. (Andy Rooney)
I've learned... that simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. (Andy Rooney)
At the birth of a child, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. (Roger Rosenblatt)
As little children, we are authentic. Only the present time is real for us; we don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. We enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. Nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way. (Don Miguel Ruiz)
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing... should be taught to every child just as writing is... (John Ruskin)
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. (Carl Sagan)
We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills. (Martin Seligman)
No light shines brighter than the smile of a child. (Ian Semple)
Children's laughter is the pealing of life's carillons. (Ian Semple)
Adults are obsolete children. (Dr. Seuss)
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child. (George Bernard Shaw)
It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives. (Frank Smith)
-teacher of Helen Keller...
Let the child go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience. (Anne Sullivan)
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. (Harry S. Truman)
Children have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. (Desmond Tutu)
All children have creative power. (Brenda Ueland)
The visually illiterate children of one generation become the arrogantly insensitive adults of the next. (Author unknown)
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. (John Updike)
Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. (Gore Vidal)
-art students, 7-8 years old ..
Kids have few inhibitions and they're not so critical. With their strong personalities, mistakes become a positive part of the process. Even autistic kids settle right in and concentrate. And shy kids love it because they get a few moments to shine. (Katarina Vlasic)
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. (Denis Waitley)
Working with children keeps my art fresh, keeps me motivated and keeps me young at heart. I learn to see art through the eyes of the children and they teach me so much! (Dorenda Crager Watson)
Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again. (Eudora Welty)
I love young children for their way. I love them for the way they don't dwell forever and can be with you right now. I love to paint. It keeps my soul happy. (Dana van Westrienen)
I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation... (Elie Wiesel)
Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime. (Christopher Willard)
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind descends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering. (Edward O. Wilson)
-adapted from Robert Genn...
Parents can be intimidating. They may even cause their children to give up because there's too much to learn. Effective parents are able to draw the child in and put the child's creativity ahead of their own. (Bruce Wood)
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